Sunday 5 March 2023

Vidar...


 This was such a special commission and I am so pleased I managed to do it justice.  This is a British army service dog who has recently passed away. I was asked to paint him with his medals as a surprise gift for his handler, who is understandably very upset by his passing.

This turned out to be a bit of a tricky one - the photos I was given to work from were either fuzzy or from the wrong angle, plus I have not done a pencil portrait for a very long time and felt extremely rusty.  However, with the help of Google and a lot of perseverance, I got there in the end.

This was worked in coloured pencil on pastel paper, the medals were painted using a mixture of metallic paints and other mediums.


No comments: